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Network Readiness Index (NRI)
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Source: The Global Information Technology Report 2015
DR is #95 out of 143 countries in the ranking,
losing 2 positions in comparison with the 2014 ranking.

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Source: Indotel.gob.do - October 2015
Telecommunications stats in DR
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INDICATOR METRIC TOTAL
FIXED TELEPHONY
LINES IN OPERATION QTY OF LINES 1,142,301
MOBILE TELEPHONY
LINES IN OPERATION (POSTPAID & PREPAID) QTY OF LINES 8,700,976
PREPAID LINES IN OPERATION QTY OF LINES 6,874,073
POSTPAID LINES IN OPERATION QTY OF LINES 1,826,903
OTHER TELEPHONY INDICATORS
IP LINES QTY OF LINES 133,002
TOTAL LINES (FIXED, MOBILE, IP) QTY OFLINES 9,976,279
PAID TV
TOTAL SUSCRIBERS OF PAID TV (CABLE, IPTV, SATELLITE OR WIRELESS) ACCOUNTS 636,009
INTERNET
INTERNET ACCESS ACCOUNTS 4,561,409

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Source: Statcounter.com – October 2015
Top mobile vendors in DR
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Share: Samsung 30.92%, Apple 15.38%, Alcatel 6.6%, LG 6.91%, Huawei 6.48%,
BlackBerry 5.27%, Motorola 4.78%, HTC 4.19%, Nokia 3.58%

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Source: Statcounter.com – October 2015
Top tablet vendors in DR
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Share: Apple 49.73%, Samsung 24.33%, Amazon 2.54%, Acer 2.63%,
Google 2.19%, Asus 1.58%, Microsoft 1.25%, BlackBerry 1.22%, Dell 0.7%

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Source: Statcounter.com – October 2015
Top Mobile OS in DR
Share: Android 74.31%, iOS 15.38%, BlackBerry 5.25%, Windows Phone 2.85%
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Source: Statcounter.com – October 2015
Top Tablet OS in DR
Share: iOS 49.73%, Android 45.41%, Linux 1.99%, BlackBerry 1.22%,
Win8.1 RT 1.17%, Win8 RT 0.08%, WebOS 0.09%
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Smartphones in RD
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Million
Source: GSMA Intelligence – 2015
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48% penetration of smartphones in the Dominican Republic

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Source: Alexa.com – October 2015
Top 10 General Top 10 Local
Most visited Websites in DR
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Position Website
1 Google.com
2 Youtube.com
3 Facebook.com
4 Google.com.do
5 Amazon.com
6 Live.com
7 Wikipedia.org
8 ListinDiario.com
9 eBay.com
10 Yahoo.com
Position Website
8 ListinDiario.com
14 DiarioLibre.com
15 Bpd.com.do
17 Popularenlinea.com
19 Corotos.com.do
21 Gob.do
25 Remolacha.net
26 BHDLeon.com.do
27 ElCaribe.com.do
31 Hoy.com.do

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Source: NIC.do – October 2015
Internet Domain names
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SubDomain 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
COM.DO 8,727 10,030 10,149 11,006 11,423 11,657 12,624
NET.DO 469 485 423 412 396 404 438
ORG.DO 600 663 651 647 650 664 695
WEB.DO 133 130 113 97 91 90 95
EDU.DO 259 294 321 356 379 396 440
ART.DO 114 109 102 90 71 71 71
SLD.DO 21 22 21 17 16 16 17
DO 2,230 5,733 6,699 11,590 9,622 10,377 9,605
GOV.DO 385 424 457 422 442 432 384
GOB.DO 211 286 359 435 502 526 591
MIL.DO 24 31 31 34 43 48 50
TOTAL 13,173 18,207 19,326 25,106 23,635 24,681 25,010

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eGovernment
Source: Dominicana.gob.do - Q2 2015
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Data from: Índice de Uso de TIC e Implementación de
Gobierno Electrónico en el Estado Dominicano (iTICge)
 ICT usage: 58.21%
 eGovernment implementation: 43.07%
 e-Services development: 42.28%

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Source: One.gob.do – ENHOGAR-MICS 2014
Households with computers
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Percentage of households with computers. And percentage of persons
aged 5 years and more with computers, by area of residence.

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Source: One.gob.do – ENHOGAR-MICS 2014
Computer usage
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Percentage of people with 5 years or more that use computers,
by area of residence.

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Source: One.gob.do – ENHOGAR-MICS 2014
Computers usage by sex
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Percentage of people with 5 years or more that use computers, by sex.

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Source: One.gob.do – ENHOGAR-MICS 2014
Percentage of people who use
computers, by age groups.
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Percentage of persons aged 12
and over who use computers
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Source: One.gob.do – ENHOGAR-MICS 2014

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Source: One.gob.do – ENHOGAR-MICS 2014
Percentage of households with
computers
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Source: One.gob.do – ENHOGAR 2013
Percentage of households with
Internet
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Fuente: One.gob.do – ENHOGAR-MICS 2014
Percentage of persons aged 12
and over who use Internet
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Source: One.gob.do – ENHOGAR-MICS 2014
Internet usage
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Percentage of people with 5 years or more that use the Internet,
by area of residence.

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Source: One.gob.do – ENHOGAR-MICS 2014
Percentage of persons aged 5 and
older who use the Internet, by sex
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49.0
50.6
40.0
45.0
50.0
55.0
Men Women

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Source: One.gob.do – ENHOGAR-MICS 2014
Percentage of persons aged 5 and older who
use the Internet, according to educational
attainment of the household head
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20.9
36.6
60.9
82.6
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20.0
30.0
40.0
50.0
60.0
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90.0
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Source: One.gob.do – ENHOGAR-MICS 2014
Percentage of persons aged 5 and older who use
the Internet, according to wealth group quintile
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21.2
41.2
52.9
62.1
78.2
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20.0
30.0
40.0
50.0
60.0
70.0
80.0
90.0
Poorer Second Quintile Medium Quintile Fourth Quintile Richer
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5
~RD$ 11,000 ~RD$ 18,100 ~RD$ 24,900 ~RD$ 38,800 ~RD$ 102,600

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Source: Statcounter.com – October 2015
Top Desktop Social Media Sites
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Share: Facebook 78.35%, Twitter 8.99%, Tumblr 4.99%, Pinterest 3.87%

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Source: Statcounter.com – October 2015
Top mobile Social Media Sites
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Share: Facebook 89.15%, Twitter 6.66%, Pinterest 2.72%, Google+ 0.96%,
Tumblr 0.1%

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Social Network Usage Using Desktop
Source: Monkey Stats – 2015
Most used social network in Dominican Republic is Facebook with the usage
of about 89.29%. Twitter ranks second with 4.45%, Pinterest ranks third with
2.12%, Tumblr ranks fourth with 1.5% and the remaining social networks holds
2.64% using desktop.
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Social Network Usage Using Mobile
Source: Monkey Stats – 2015
Most used social network in Dominican Republic is Facebook with the usage
of about 89.37%. Twitter ranks second with 7.15%, Pinterest ranks third with
2.19%, Google+ ranks fourth with 0.73% and the remaining social networks
holds 0.56% using Mobile internet.
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Facebook statistics
Source: Facebook Internal Data - June 2015
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Information provided by Ignacio Casas, Facebook Director
for Central America and The Caribbean.
 Users monthly: 5,100,000
 Users with mobile access: 3,400,000
 Average user age: 18 - 44
 Average friends per user: 286
 Average page like per user: 23

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Social Networks users
Source: Facebook and LinkedIn Advertising Platform - October 2015
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There’s not official data for Twitter users,
the estimation is about 1,000,000
1,000,000 553,000

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Sources
 This report is a compilation of public statistics available in the
following websites:
 Indotel.gob.do
 One.gob.do
 NIC.Do
 Weforum.org
 Alexa.com
 LinkedIN.com
 Facebook.com
 Statsmonkey.com
 Statcounter.com
 In some of the charts the percentages does not amount to
100% , because missing or irrelevant information is not shown.
 Social Networks stats from two different sites are provided for
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